They left out one. I remember buying computer magazines that were the size and thickness of a phone book (for those old enough to know what a phone book looked like). They were massive, over an inch thick, and 90% advertisements.
They were great! I'd buy one and have my recreational reading for a week. I would sit and look at those pictures of high-tech PCs in the ads and imagine that I was wealthy enough to buy one. The one I remember best was a PC that was called a portable. It has a 5 inch B&W CRT screen (green, actually), and two -- not one, two -- bays for floppy drives.
Those floppies, boy they were fun. They would fail suddenly and refuse to read for no obvious reason -- just one day they would work, and the next day they wouldn't. The 3 1/2 inch floppies, which were not actually floppy, were a little more reliable.
Never had problems with my 5.25" disks. Data on cassette tapes were a pain in the ass on the other hand.
Depends, you had to keep them stored properly. I still have my Kaypro 2X sitting here, the last time I made boot disks for it (other than the few I just recently made for a computer archivist) have 1992 on the label. Booted just fine.
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